Europa Universalis 5 is brilliant, but still very buggy.

If you like those kind of games, it's probably the best of the last 25 years. It's a game of extremes, the graphics are simply annoying, but it can keep you playing one level for a whole day.

Genshin Impact is a very good and entertaining action role-playing game, which manipulates itself with its monetization in the endgame.

Currently, I still hope that a simple replacement function for user-generated challenges or even entire campaigns will be available again.

It doesn't really manage to combine brains and entertainment. That's a pity because it could be a great game.

The Remaster is a joy for C&C Veterans, but delivers less than it could in almost every respect.

Charming and colourful pixel action-adventure with a lot of heart, solid combat and puzzle dungeons, yet apparent deficiencies in the narrative pace.

Where Origins and especially Odyssey still had a clear mission towards roleplaying, Valhalla seems like a half-hearted step backwards. Yes, there is now real action again, and deadly sneaking. Yes, in its best moments Valhalla has exactly what I want from an Assassin's Creed. But instead of focusing on the highlights, Ubisoft buries the strengths of the game under boring open world stuff.

It's half-time for Tales of Monkey Island. The third of five episodes is good entertainment, but the puzzles are getting worse. Most of the fun comes from comical situations and the weird characters, not from the game itself. Instead of getting harder, it gets easier.

Quotation forthcoming.

DSC: Black Shark is full of technical details and you should read the 488 pages of the PDF manual, because the tutorials only show a handful of the functions. It's a tough and realistic simulation with 130 missions and a mission editor and especially fun in co-op missions over LAN or the internet.

It may have some old fashioned charm, but its age clearly shows. Controls and game design are out of date.

Quotation forthcoming.

At its core, this is a fantastic port oft he Alien franchise into gaming. However, the almost too-strong Alien can be frustrating at times.

The Witcher could have been a much better roleplaying game if it wasn't for it's long loading times, unnecessary traveling, uncomfortable handling and bugs.

If you were hoping that Tales of Monkey Island would at least end in some kind of fireworks of ideas, you will be disappointed. Dull and without creativity, this is how Telltale ends the series. It's well meant, but disappointing. It's not bad, but just not enough for Monkey Island.

Vessel annoyed me at first with the more sub-optimal control, but the more I've played, the more fun but I had it.

Songs of Silence manages to convince with fresh ideas, but their implementation still reveals weaknesses.

It can be fun, even addictive, but the overly complicated controls and bugs prevent it from being a great game. Wait for patches.

A game like a comic book, driven by its snarky story. Gameplay suffers from weak gunplay and repetition, though.

The time for original concepts and new genres is not over yet. Defense Grid: The Awakening is a highly motivating game, it's not easy, but not unfair and there are always new elements added to the game. There's no story and the controls are not perfect, but the game can still glue you to your chair for days.

At its core, a superb Battle Royale that currently suffers from technical issues and some unfortunate design decisions.

I would recommend Ground Zeroes without hesitation were it not for the extremely short playing time.

Did you spend countless hours with tower defense games? Anomaly: Warzone Earth turns the tables and offers tower offense. Presentation, controls and mission design are well done, so it's well worth the money.

Reneimal is a horror fairy tale that captivates with its atmosphere, but leaves much of its potential untapped in terms of puzzles and co-op play.

Broken Arrow manages a brilliant tightrope walk between strategic depth and action-packed presentation, but struggles with unnecessary difficulty owing to the lack of a save function, among other things.

Worldplay, grog and atmosphere, but still quite weak puzzles - the fourth episode of Tales of Monkey Island offers good entertainment, including the well known problems of all episodes so far. Only the great presentation prevents the game from mediocrity.

Quotation forthcoming.